Letya Zeya Thingyan

Letya Zeya Thingyan လက်ျာ ဇေယျ သင်္ကြန်
Governor of Pyinzi
In office c. April 1412 – May 1426
Monarch	Minkhaung I
Preceded by	Nandathingyan
Succeeded by	Thihapate
Governor of Launggyet
In office c. February 1411 – early 1412
Monarch	Minkhaung I
Preceded by	Min Saw Mon (as king of Launggyet)
Succeeded by	Min Saw Mon (as king)
Governor of Toungoo
In office 1408/09–1412
Monarch	Minkhaung I
Preceded by	Min Nemi
Succeeded by	Thinkhaya I
Personal details
Born	Khin Nyo c. 1350s
Died	?
Military service
Allegiance	Ava Kingdom
Branch/service	Royal Ava Army
Rank	Commander
Commands	Launggyet Army

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Letya Zeya Thingyan (Burmese: လက်ျာ ဇေယျ သင်္ကြန်, pronounced [lɛʔjà zèja̰ θɪ́ɴdʑàɴ]) was governor of Toungoo (Taungoo) from 1408/09 to 1412.^[1]

Brief

Born Khin Nyo, he was a childhood tutor of King Minkhaung I of Ava. Minkhaung appointed him governor of Toungoo in 1408/09 to replace Min Nemi, who had just died.^[2][3]

His appointment came at the height of the Forty Years' War against the Hanthawaddy Kingdom. He commanded the Toungoo Regiment in the 1410–1412 campaigns of the war. During the war in early 1411, he was appointed governor of Launggyet, the capital of Arakan.^[4][5][6] He was driven out of Launggyet a year later by a Hanthawaddy army.^[7][5][8][9]

At Ava, Minkhaung moved Letya to Pyinzi because the king was concerned that Letya was getting too old to be governor of Toungoo, a frontier town, during the war.^[1] He lost his Pyinzi post in 1426 when the new king Mohnyin Thado appointed his son-in-law Thihapate governor of Pyinzi.^[10]

References

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